It seems the ratio of views to votes on an article, from limited experience, varies from around 2000/1 to 4000/1, which begs the question. Are we being suckered into believing that thousands of people have read our articles when really they're only read by web crawlers and search robots or do real people read them and then only 1 in a thousand has a definite opinion on what they've read.
My guess is it's somewhere in the middle, perhaps Bob has some thoughts on this?

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

You may be right, they certainly read faster. I wonder given that we don't want to keep them out but that there are ways to do so whether it's possible to let them in but not to count them, perhaps a Bugs & Sugs entry is needed.

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)